Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 2nd Jun 2005 00:17 UTC
X11, Window Managers It's been a few years since we ran such a poll. Let's see what most people prefer these days.
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by Stephen Leaf on Thu 2nd Jun 2005 02:19 UTC

Nothing beats the ability to edit files remotely via ssh or ftp in any kde editor.
No other DE or even any OS can do that. (please correct me if I'm wrong)

I find Qt to be more responsive.
The last Gnome I tried was 2.0. vowed never again .. 15 X11 and kernel crashes in 30mins.

I did get to try out the Gnome on Ubuntu however. For what it is it's decent. But I found it incredibly difficult to configure and well.. Use..

For the file manager you can't go up a directory easily. I despise the open a directory new window opens.
and even more so hate the click an option and it's applied immediately that's infected every Gnome/GTK app around it.
that type of response is very undesirable because it doesn't make it clear what exactly is happening or even what the Ok and Cancel buttons do. If it's applied right away do I need to click Ok?
What happens if I wanted to click an option just to see what it could enable but I didn't want to use it.. and it's applied right away and something happens that causes something very undesirable to happen. What that could be I have no clue. but that reaction could result in that.

I will admit however there are certain areas in Gnome that I felt to be a bit more developed. that was from the 2.0 version tho. Since then KDE has caught up.